I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot.

On the whole, Flora liked it better when they were silent, though it did rather give her the feeling that she was acting in one of the less cheerful German highbrow films.

She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple.

A straight nose is a great help if one wishes to look serious'.

Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?

The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style

Women are all alike - aye fussin' over their fal-lals and bedazin' a man's eyes, when all they really want is man's blood and his heart out of his body and his soul and his pride.